Let’s be honest. When you see an alert pop up on your phone, you aren’t thinking “according to section 12 of our most recent SRE handbook used at training 6 months ago I need to keep in mind who should be Incident Commander and who should be Ops Lead”. You’re an engineer at heart.

I've long been fascinated with the metaphor of an iceberg to describe a problem who’s true magnitude is obscured beneath the surface. If you’re not familiar with this phenomenon, when ice freezes it decreases in density. This allows the solid ice to float, partially, atop the water with only a small fraction of it exposed. In fact, icebergs hold nearly 90% of their mass hidden below the water.

The OnPage team is pleased to inform you that we’ve been acknowledged in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Real-Time Health System Technologies, 2023 report, as a Sample Vendor in the Clinical Communication and Collaboration category. As per the Gartner report, “This Hype Cycle includes technologies pivotal to the real-time health system vision.

With the acceleration of cloud and digital transformation initiatives, enterprises are under pressure to adopt more agile, DevOps practices to be responsive to the business. But the increased complexity of digital systems and reliance on digital business only makes the cost of incidents more expensive.

Understanding what's happening within your systems is a necessity. Have you ever wondered how experts keep an eye on systems to make sure everything's running smoothly? That's where observability tools come in! Observability tools are like helpers that give you a peek inside your tech. In this blog, we will talk about observability tools and how they can be used in different situations so it's easier for you to choose the right one for your organization.

In the dynamic landscape of IT operations, incidents are bound to occur. Incident management is a structured and proactive approach to address and resolve these unexpected events promptly and effectively. It forms a crucial component of IT service management (ITSM), ensuring smooth operations and minimizing the impact of incidents on an organization’s productivity and customer experience.

While most of the world knows us for on-call management, we’ve been hard at work expanding the PagerDuty Operations Cloud to other areas like AIOps, Process Automation and Customer Service Operations (CSOps). Underscoring our commitment to redefining digital operations management for our customers, our commitment to R&D and delivering the best products and platform has resulted in PagerDuty being recognized in 12 distinct 2023 Gartner Hype Cycle reports across nine unique categories.

A cold fact of SaaS Life™ is that you can’t make money when your product or website doesn’t work — and those lost dollars add up fast. Downtime, SLA breach paybacks, compliance fines, and other explicit costs are the easiest to quantify and they’re what most people think of when they think about incidents.

Each year, more than 296 million packages are shipped around the world via DHL and their premium service, Time Definite International. And at DHL Express Switzerland, a local unit of the international logistics and shipping company, the IT team provides solutions for tracking customs clearance progress, analytics, mobile and optical character recognition (OCR) scanning, and warehouse management on every package that moves through Switzerland.